Marc Andreessen recently wrote a post on the strike called by the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) in which he takes media moguls to task over their "[crawling] into a hole of protecting the status quo".
And, if that's not enough, Suicide Girls posted an article that explains, from a writer's perspective, why exactly they've gone on strike. That article tells us a bit about the producer-writer negotiation history and why the current strike is so important to writers today:
This dispute is not just about writers. We are the first union that is fighting for our rights and equal pay when it comes to the Internet. What we do now will affect every union in Hollywood
If you want some solid insight on what's going on -- i.e. the backdrop of the once-in-a-lifetime industry shift that is currently happening and how the WGA strikes fits into that -- read both of those.